Oligarch Pavel Fuks, who is listed in Ukraine according to the registers, actually went abroad in the first days of the full-scale invasion.
This is stated in the London Battalion investigation by Ukrayinska Pravda journalist Mikhail Tkach.
Pavel Fuks appeared in London because he forgot to remove the Kharkov license plate from his Land Rover. The car attracted the attention of the journalist, and soon the oligarch himself got out of it. As noted in the investigation, according to the registers he is now in Ukraine, but in fact he has been living in Britain since the first days of the full-scale Russian invasion.
Pavel Fuks explained his “presence in Ukraine” by the fact that in the first days of the war on the Polish border no one was scanning documents. In London, the oligarch has a residence permit thanks to investments in British government bonds, but in Ukraine there are sanctions and criminal cases.
Fuchs came under sanctions from the National Security and Defense Council in 2021, and in the spring of 2023 he received suspicion from the SBU about financial fraud with state-owned strategic enterprises and tax evasion.
In a comment to Mikhail Tkach, the oligarch said that he plans to return to Ukraine, but only after the end of the war, when “a window of opportunity opens” for doing business.
